Hungarian National Socialist Party

The Hungarian National Socialist Party (HNSP) was a national socialist political party in Hungary that existed from 1937 to 1944. The party was founded by Ferenc Szalasi as a merger of five fascist parties, and the party was founded in reaction to the success of German Nazism under Adolf Hitler. The party was banned on 21 February 1938, but it was relaunched in 1940 and elected 15 deputy seats to parliament. In 1941, the party elected as many as 44 deputies, and the party played a minor role in the government of Ferenc Szalasi. In 1944, it formally merged into Szalasi's Arrow Cross Party.